ANT208H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Plasmodium Falciparum, Antigen, Plasmodium Ovale
Document Summary
We are living in a different situation from past generations who experienced more epidemics. It has the potential to be incredibly serious to people who are young-mid aged, people who are not generally as vulnerable to infectious diseases. 1918 flu pandemic: it killed between 20-100 million people worldwide (compared to. 15 million who died in wwi), making the life expectancy drop by 12 years. Pathogens: suffering or disease (from greek word), which can be micro or macroscopic. Parasite: something that needs the resources of another being to survive. Robert koch developed the germ theory of disease: 1. Identi cation of pathogen in all individuals with the disease; 2. Isolation and growth of pathogen in a pure culture; 3. Causation of disease from the culture if introduced to another healthy individual; 4. Isolation and growth in culture of the pathogen from the second individual. Diseases are caused by some invasive living organism, except for many prions.
